Mechanical Engineer - Automation

Overview

Your New Role and Team

We are hiring a Mechanical Engineer – Automation , reporting functionally to the Mechanical Team Lead and working closely with cross-functional technical leads. This role is essential to delivering robust robotic solutions for real-world deployment by integrating mechanical systems with advanced control and AI technologies.

In this role, you'll lead the design, assembly, and integration of complete robotic systems to automate a wide range of customer workflows. You'll collaborate closely with engineering, software, and commercial teams to translate customer needs into scalable and reliable automation solutions. From feasibility assessment through to on-site system commissioning, you'll own both the design and execution phases.

If you're excited by building intelligent, hands-on robotics solutions and deploying them into real production environments, we'd love to hear from you.

Success Criteria

• Evaluate customer task requirements and define mechanical workflows in collaboration with technical leads
• Design, source, and integrate robotic components including arms, grippers, sensors, and custom fixtures
• Assemble, modify, and commission reliable mechanical systems in-house for testing and deployment
• Develop custom mechanisms that support high precision, repeatable, and task-specific constraints
• Ensure system readiness for operation, validation, and deployment testing
• Troubleshoot and iterate on hardware performance in close collaboration with engineering teams
• Coordinate with suppliers to ensure timely delivery and smooth integration of mechanical components
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external partners to ensure mechanical designs meet performance, interoperability, and scalability needs

Your Experience Qualifications

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Working at Sanctuary AI

Sanctuary AI is an equal opportunity employer; employment with Sanctuary AI is governed based on skills, competence, and qualifications and will not be influenced in any way by race, color, religion, gender, national origin / ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability, or any other legally protected status. In 2023, Sanctuary AI moved into a state-of-the-art office facility and has been recognized by LinkedIn as a Top Startup company.

Compensation and Benefits

Sanctuary offers a market-leading compensation package that includes competitive salaries, equity stakes, and a full suite of benefits for permanent employees, encompassing health coverage, paid time off, cutting-edge work facilities, and worksite flexibility by role. Our commitment to fairness ensures that our total compensation consistently surpasses market standards.

About Sanctuary AI

Founded in 2018, Sanctuary builds humanoid robots and a novel control system for them that integrates symbolic logic and reasoning with data-driven robot foundation models. We use our robots to collect vision, audio, touch, and proprioception data from the perspective of the robot while they perform real-world work tasks. We use that data to train multimodal robot foundation models. Because our systems are vertically integrated, we can design, deploy, and refine at scale. Our mission is to create the world\'s first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots.

Recruiting and Employment Agency Notice

Recruitment and hiring is conducted internally by Sanctuary AI. We are not seeking or soliciting any new agency partnerships or agreements at this time. Any employment agency or professional recruiter that provides an unsolicited resume or otherwise presents a prospective candidate through the Sanctuary AI career site or directly to Sanctuary AI employees may be engaged at Sanctuary AI\'s sole discretion without any compensation to the Agency. Our Talent Acquisition team will contact external firms directly if needed.

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